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Today Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, is releasing a new tool for competitive insights called “Litigation Footprint.”  Lex Machina now includes litigation analytics from over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts in 34 states and the District of Columbia.  The Litigation Footprint enhancement was developed in response

Law library budgets can easily grow wild like sprawling and untamed gardens. In the past, law librarians could be managing literally thousands of print titles spread across dozens of locations. The pandemic accelerated the full embrace of digital alternatives to print. Today many law firm libraries have small print collections but a large and complex

CHICAGO – March 5, 2024 — The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)— theonly national organization representing law librarians and legal informationprofessionals—is thrilled to announce registration for its 117th Annual Meeting &Conference in Chicago, Illinois, is now open. Register at this link

The 2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference—Lead.Innovate.Transform—will be held at the Hyatt Regency

Courtroom Insight has announced the  launch of  a comprehensive Lawyer Directory. Courtroom Insight has been aggregating data on professionals (lawyers, arbitrators, judges and experts) as well as a suite of partnership alliances. According to the press release, “this unique, specialized offering expands on Courtroom Insight’s existing model for delivering legal professional insights by aggregating private

Lawyers always want to be at least one insight ahead of their clients. Law firm librarians, marketing and knowledge professionals have been tackling the challenges of business intelligence with a continuously evolving marketplace of tools for aggregation and analytics. It was only a matter of time before someone designed a news and insights platform that

 LexisNexis® Legal & Professional  Lexis+ AI is a  a generative AI solution driven by LexisNexis’ proprietary search engine and authoritative content. Lexis+ AI   delivers results based on the LexisNexis’ proprietary content which assures that results include “verifiable, citable authority. This follows the 2023 launch of  Lexis+ AI in the United States.

Lexis+ AI technology

I have lived through legal technology revolutions before. The conversion of legal research from print to online moved though law firms like slow rolling train.  Lexis, the first commercial online  legal research product launched in 1970. Many firms did not fully embrace online research and abandon print until the pandemic drove the profession to remote

On December 7, 2023 Wolters Kluwer released the following announcement:

Legal & Regulatory division continues to redefine the landscape for legal professionals

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory (LR) today announced an innovative feature for legal professionals: Generative Pre-training Transformer (GPT)-generated summaries of court rulings. GPT summarization harnesses generative AI (GenAI) to simplify legal research,

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and its international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) have announce the release of the AAAi Lab, “a web center supporting AAA users, arbitrator, in-house counsel and law firms with policy guidance, educational webinars and tools for embracing generative AI in alternative dispute resolution.”

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